The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1502
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1902–06
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montaña de Santa Victoria, vista desde Les Lauves; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Mount Sainte Victoire
Rewald (W593); Venturi revised: 1902–06; Venturi (1033): 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 11/16 x 21 1/16 in. (47.5 x 53.5 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, Europe
Private collection
Exhibition History
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 13, as Mount Sainte Victoire, lent from a French Collection [Bernheim-Jeune].
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cezanne Aquarelliste, October 13–November 8, 1956.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, Cézanne – Aquarelliste et Peintre, May–July 1960, no. 23, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1900-06.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, La Douce France, August 7–October 11, 1964, no. 50, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent ans d'aquarelle, 1860-1960, June–July 1966, no. 22, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1900–06.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 19, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1900-1906.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 75, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904-06, lent by Dr. Peter Nathan, Zürich. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 63, ill., as La Montaña de Santa Victoria, vista desde Les Lauves, 1904-1906, lent by Peter Nathan, Zurich.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 21, fig. 26, 1900-06, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1033, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 93, fig. 9.
Lem, F. H. Sur le chemin de la peinture: Paul Cézanne. Paris: Aux Éditions des Sept Couleurs, 1969, fig. 2.
Cabinet des dessins, Album 6. Cézanne: Aquarelles. Paris: Henri Scrépel, 1975, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "Die Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne und die Kunst Ostasiens." Du 42, no. 4 (September 1982), p. 16, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 148.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 593, ill. and color pl. 48.
Vuillemin, Madeleine. "Versuche über Cézannes späte Aquarelle." University of Zurich, 1989, pl. VIII.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 123, ill. p. 166.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 9.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 232, fig.159.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 1502, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Notes
The farm complex in the center of this composition is the same as the one in [La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902–06 (1503)].
Record last updated May 22, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902–06 (FWN 1502)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1576 (accessed on July 14, 2025).
